From the “racism is totally within our rights under the First Amendment” dept.:
Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company, xAI, has filed a lawsuit against the state of Colorado over a new AI law set to take effect in June.
The suit seeks to block the state from enforcing the law, which would impose new requirements on AI systems to protect state residents from “algorithmic discrimination” in sectors such as education, employment, healthcare, housing and financial services.
Colorado was the first state to pass a comprehensive bill to regulate AI.
The company claims the law infringes on its first amendment free-speech protections and would force xAI to “promote the state’s ideological views on various matters, racial justice in particular”, according to the Financial Times, which first reported the lawsuit. “Its provisions prohibit developers of AI systems from producing speech that the state of Colorado dislikes.”
The output of a model isn’t speech protected by the 1st amendment, so this lawsuit is dumb. It’ll of course waste time and money though.
Oh, AI companies still have the budget to take things they don’t like to the Supreme Court. This will be a lot of wasted time and money, which could have been spent on, say, housing the unhoused.
Hilarious.
